New Rule: ICE Agents Can Execute American Citizens With Impunity — and Federal Government Will Lie About It

ICE agent just moments before he executes Alex Pretti on Saturday, January 24, 2026 in Minneapolis.

There’ a new rule in America: ICE agents are now allowed to execute American citizens with impunity — and the federal government will lie about it and cover it all up.

That’s what happened this weekend in Minneapolis when unidentified agents shot and murdered Alex Pretti, a 37-year old ICU nurse, as he was trying to come to the aid of a woman being pushed by ICE men.

All the videos that have been viewed by Americans since the shooting clearly show he was holding a camera or phone filming agents, when he was pushed violently, then tackled by a half dozen ICE agents. During the scuffle, an agent can be seen removing a gun from Pretti, which he was not brandishing and who had a legal right to own and carry at the time.

Then shots rang out and Pretti was executed by at least one agent — and his bullet-riddled body just simply laid there. There were at least 9 or 10 shots fired into his body.

Pretti was instantly defamed by Noam and other officials, and called a criminal and domestic terrorist who went there to massacre agents, and agents fired in self-defense.

This was of course the second execution of an American citizen in Minneapolis. Pretti was killed a little over a mile from where Nicole Good was executed at point blank range by agent Jonathan Ross.

A former lawyer and current grassroots activist, I have been editing the Rag since Patty Jones and I launched it in Oct 2007. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.

3 thoughts on “New Rule: ICE Agents Can Execute American Citizens With Impunity — and Federal Government Will Lie About It

  1. Last I checked, a convicted felon (and rapist?) was elected to office. What was the expectation? Law and order? Like they say, elect a clown, you get a circus… Well, elect a criminal and you get…

  2. I heard one summary and I thought it relevant. “Violence is coming to your community, depending upon how you voted.” If the goal is to enable an Insurrection Act or Marshal Law implementation during the 2026 Midterm election, our best response would be the Portland model. It’s hard to promote inflatable frogs and Unicorns as a systemic threat to the Nation.

  3. Thanks Frank, good summary of our situation. I’m hoping that the regime has pushed too hard. Progressives already are resisting, and I think this will swing most Independents. It’s even too much for many conservatives and maga. So the flipping point may be here, or near at least.

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